Exploratory Testing Jobs in England

Exploratory Testing
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Exploratory Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Exploratory Testing over the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 645 800 816
Rank change year-on-year +155 +16 -49
Permanent jobs citing Exploratory Testing 46 40 103
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.094% 0.047% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% 0.054% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 36 31 86
10th Percentile - £31,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £25,750 £35,625 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £45,000 £56,549
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -20.42% +2.82%
75th Percentile £43,750 £60,625 £75,938
90th Percentile £63,500 £83,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £56,549
% change year-on-year -5.56% -20.42% +6.20%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Exploratory Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 45,933 73,419 85,900
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.08% 85.47% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 24,038 53,988 50,920
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £34,308
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £101,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

Exploratory Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Exploratory Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Exploratory Testing in England

Exploratory Testing
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Exploratory Testing in England.

Salary trend for Exploratory Testing in England

Exploratory Testing
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Exploratory Testing in England over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Exploratory Testing in England

Exploratory Testing
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Exploratory Testing within the England region over the 6 months to 12 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +73 17 £26,500 -41.11% 7
Yorkshire +82 16 £26,500 -41.11% 5
London +105 10 £62,500 +13.64% 10
South West +109 7 £40,000 +10.34% 3
South East +98 7 £42,500 - 5
Midlands +74 5 £42,500 +21.43% 7
West Midlands +64 4 £42,500 +21.43% 3
North West +1 1 £28,000 -25.33% 1
East Midlands - 1 £45,000 - 2
Exploratory Testing
UK

Exploratory Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.17%) Moodle
1 1 (2.17%) Totara
Cloud Services
1 20 (43.48%) AWS
2 17 (36.96%) SaaS
3 10 (21.74%) Azure
4 6 (13.04%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (2.17%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.17%) Azure AKS
5 1 (2.17%) BrowserStack
5 1 (2.17%) GitHub
5 1 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.17%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (34.78%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.35%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.17%) Neo4j
3 1 (2.17%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.17%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 10 (21.74%) Cypress.io
2 9 (19.57%) Selenium
3 8 (17.39%) Postman
4 6 (13.04%) TestComplete
5 5 (10.87%) SpecFlow
6 4 (8.70%) Appium
7 3 (6.52%) LoadRunner
7 3 (6.52%) WebDriver
8 2 (4.35%) CircleCI
8 2 (4.35%) Gatling
8 2 (4.35%) Git
8 2 (4.35%) Jenkins
8 2 (4.35%) JIRA
8 2 (4.35%) Locust
8 2 (4.35%) TestRail
8 2 (4.35%) Zephyr
9 1 (2.17%) Android Studio
9 1 (2.17%) Charles Proxy
9 1 (2.17%) NeoLoad
9 1 (2.17%) YouTrack
General
1 30 (65.22%) Social Skills
2 19 (41.30%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (34.78%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (6.52%) Law
5 1 (2.17%) Finance
5 1 (2.17%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (34.78%) IT Engineer
1 16 (34.78%) IT Support
1 16 (34.78%) IT Support Engineer
1 16 (34.78%) Software Support Engineer
1 16 (34.78%) Support Engineer
2 13 (28.26%) QA Engineer
3 6 (13.04%) Analyst
4 5 (10.87%) Software QA Engineer
4 5 (10.87%) Tester
5 4 (8.70%) QA Specialist
5 4 (8.70%) Senior
5 4 (8.70%) Senior QA Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) Software Tester
5 4 (8.70%) Test Analyst
6 3 (6.52%) Junior
6 3 (6.52%) QA Analyst
7 2 (4.35%) Automation Tester
7 2 (4.35%) QA Automation Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) QA Test Analyst
7 2 (4.35%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (15.22%) Playwright
2 4 (8.70%) .NET
3 2 (4.35%) Gherkin
3 2 (4.35%) React
3 2 (4.35%) REST
4 1 (2.17%) .NET Core
4 1 (2.17%) AngularJS
4 1 (2.17%) CSS
4 1 (2.17%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (2.17%) HTML
4 1 (2.17%) JSON
4 1 (2.17%) MERN Stack
4 1 (2.17%) Swagger
4 1 (2.17%) Vue
4 1 (2.17%) XML
4 1 (2.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (43.48%) Mobile App
2 16 (34.78%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (6.52%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.17%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.17%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.17%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 22 (47.83%) Windows
2 17 (36.96%) Android
3 5 (10.87%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (67.39%) Software Testing
2 30 (65.22%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (54.35%) Test Automation
4 18 (39.13%) Regression Testing
5 16 (34.78%) Analytical Thinking
5 16 (34.78%) CRM
5 16 (34.78%) Customer Service
5 16 (34.78%) Data Privacy
5 16 (34.78%) Mathematics
5 16 (34.78%) Migration
6 11 (23.91%) Test Strategy
7 9 (19.57%) DevOps
8 8 (17.39%) Test Scripting
9 7 (15.22%) Agile
9 7 (15.22%) Test Management
10 6 (13.04%) API Testing
10 6 (13.04%) CI/CD
10 6 (13.04%) Functional Testing
10 6 (13.04%) Manual Testing
10 6 (13.04%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 16 (34.78%) JavaScript
2 11 (23.91%) SQL
3 8 (17.39%) Java
4 6 (13.04%) C#
4 6 (13.04%) Python
5 2 (4.35%) PHP
5 2 (4.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (13.04%) ISTQB
2 4 (8.70%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (2.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (56.52%) QA
2 2 (4.35%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (2.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (4.35%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 17 (36.96%) Microsoft
2 16 (34.78%) Zoho
3 1 (2.17%) UiPath